Re: S3 texture compression patent

[Ivan Leo Murray-Smith]

>Is it a patent for a hrdware solution, or for software? If software then in
>Europe, at least in Germany and others, it wouldn't matter because
>softwarepatents are not possible (and hopefully never will).
Software patents are illegal in all the EU, and it will stay like that thanks to
the latest copyright directive, the EUCD.
Also, this thread should be on wine-license.
It wouldn't be hard to host wine in the EU, codeweavers can just get some host
space from any EU hoster, and set up and publish remotely.